For the love of God!! Can't access system preferences.

My mom recently got a mac but we are new to it as we've always used Microsoft.
I've been trying to create an account for myself. I created it, and made it an admin, but it won't allow me to go into system preferences. Every time I click it, nothing opens. On my dock, the system pref. app is a question mark (?) and that wont open it either.
I am able to access preferences on the original user (my mom's user) but that doesn't help me at all.

Karawr wrote:
My mom recently got a mac but we are new to it as we've always used Microsoft.
I've been trying to create an account for myself. I created it, and made it an admin, but it won't allow me to go into system preferences. Every time I click it, nothing opens. On my dock, the system pref. app is a question mark (?) and that wont open it either.
I am able to access preferences on the original user (my mom's user) but that doesn't help me at all.
In that second account, when you visit the /Application folder, what does the icon for System Preferences look like? How are the privilege settings for it?

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